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Subnautica runs on a player cap of 55 players as we feel this is the maximum number of players we can handle with this size of mod team. Applicants can submit at any time, but applications will not be judged until there are fewer than 55 players in the game. Applications will be judged on a first-come, first-serve basis. To be sure that applicants are still interested when a slot is available, we will contact them with a request to reply within 72 hours regarding their interest.Please send us your application as a comment to this page! The subject line should be CHARACTER NAME | FANDOM | RESERVED/UNRESERVED. Put the OOC information in the first comment. Reply to that comment with the rest of the information or a link to your app.
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the inquisitor (ellana lavellan) | dragon age: inquisition | unreserved
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All right, on to flaws!
A big one is caring for and trusting the people close to her without question once she's decided to trust them, even when later faced with their duplicitous natures/problematic relationships with the truth. This is a problem she has with Blackwall, Solas, and Varric, to name a few. These are people who either are forthright seeming (Blackwall) or who actively dodge or don't speak much on themselves (Varric and Solas) who keep valuable information from her and those around her, as they feel is best from their point of view, before circumstance or time reveals the truth. It leads into having a blind-spot for those closest to her. That in turn leads toward having difficulties with the handling of her emotions and reactions that she has to work through and opts to repress first, as well as difficulties in letting go. (See the equivalent of "I'LL NEVER LET GO, JACK" at Solas, though he doesn't make that any better/easier either.) She doesn't move on from people easily once she's let them in.
It's the idea that even knowing a friend is a compulsive liar, they won't lie when it really matters. A friend might be mysterious, but that mystery won't hurt you. One trusts one's family (or Clan, or the equivalent one makes when isolated from their own people) to be there regardless, to support when needed, but the truth is that those involved with the Inquisition aren't a family, aren't a clan, and are all involved for their own reasons. They don't have the same kind of bonds, and aren't people she can trust fully, but she still makes that mistake, and still cares after the fact. Dealing with that is difficult for her because she doesn't want to; outside of taking it as a personal responsibility to deal with and help or handle her friends as becomes necessary, she doesn't want to have to hold the people close to her in suspicion.
This also makes it harder for her to move past personal hurts. She takes longer to work through them and figure them out — once she acknowledges those issues. More often she'll shove them back and deal with the rest of what's going on, tending to come across as more disconnected from her personal feelings (and in this, I mean emotions relating to those she's close to) in favour of dealing with the outside problems at hand. She won't let herself get so out of hand that she becomes in danger of being possessed or unable to lead (on a smaller scale), but what she can put off? She does. Even her reaction to being dumped is mired in shock and slower to come to anger because she refuses to deal with how she feels about it, with Corypheus still there and the larger problem. It's why she lets Solas get away with not explaining, because he's not strictly wrong that Corypheus is the larger threat. She logically recognises that, pushing her irrational, emotional response back. It's also an example of how Ellana, having been taught to put the whole before herself in different contexts over the years, gets caught up in that role to the exclusion of meeting her own needs. For example, by the time she acknowledges how their break up pissed her off, Solas had already pulled a disappearing act. She's dealing with it when it's too late by some accounts. Cole's more perceptive to her emotional state based on his unique qualities, but it's worth mentioning that for the most part, her self containment doesn't equate to being so completely on top of everything that she's fine. It's layers of tradeoffs, repression, and prioritizing, which is not all healthy, or not all warranted. Various friends point out that she needs to look to herself, too, and that's difficult for her to do.
Let's look more at the Dalish perspective! The prejudices against the Dalish means that she is ready to be dismissed and to have to push and fight to present her points in a given argument while expecting to be shot down and not listened to on account of who and what she is. She comes in armed with stubborn persistence and the certainty that between being Dalish and a mage, she's considered the least sane or reasonable creature in the room to those who are unenlightened: you know, basically everyone. She also dislikes when she perceives people talking to her about the Dalish like they were a unified whole, when attitudes, understandings of traditions, and even personal beliefs and practices vary from clan to clan. Solas does this, Dorian does this, basically everyone she runs into does this — but not necessarily with the intention to belittle. The problem for her is that she expects it to be barbed, belittling, and/or pointed from personal experience. Thus she usually has to tamp down on a degree of irritation before responding and pointing out that people are people, also, you are wrong, stated politely or otherwise. This ends up being hilarious when it bites her in the rear later due to Dalish perceptions of ancient truths not being all that strictly... true. It's disheartening too, and she hasn't fully dealt with that series of revelations, even while forcing herself to adapt opinions with the new evidence and truth coming through in order to stay on top of it all. Again, initial repression in the face of getting things done. It's not healthy. It's one of her coping mechanisms.
All of this means she came into discussions at the Inquisition ready for her opinions and her priorities to be considered invalid, especially when those would not be priorities that favoured human interests. For example, she doesn't choose to give the Chantry precedence over her people. When the truth about the first Inquisitor Ameridan's heritage comes out, she doesn't seek to pay off his "human" descendants: she supports the Dalish claim and shrugs at human foibles. Finding information in an elven ruin that shines light on historical occurrences? Great, that's given to the Dalish. A Dalish clan wishes to send an apology halla to live in a human village for a wrong hundreds of years old? Let that be known, and march Inquisition soldiers in to guard it. There's definitely better political ways to handle all of those situations, but she doesn't care when there are already enough concessions made every day (in her eyes) by her people. She can be, and is, defensive of her people, beliefs, and positions they're put in, or the history of how they're treated. It doesn't make the implication that she'll need to head into Tevinter an easy one to swallow, and boy, she has to acknowledge now there are mistakes they've made, but they're not any less worth fighting for. It doesn't settle well on her shoulders.
One note on difficulties she'll be facing that are new and frustrating for her relates to the loss of her lower left arm. The amputation saved her life, but she still has adjusting to do, and it is frustrating dealing with that kind of loss. Being treated like she's broken or less capable as a person due to it will irritate her, and she won't really be able to be gracious about that for a while. Completely bizarre ignorance about it (like Peridot asking why humans don't just regenerate limbs on the TDM) is almost easier to handle because it's so nonsensical, versus those who are aware people don't sprout limbs like lizards grow tails and so forth.
For an example of conflicts this brought her into with some of her friends/advisors:
- Sera, each time that the elfiness of elfishness is brought up, which at times seems so pointedly ignorant, and at other times forced Ellana to evaluate what was really being pulled out of seeming obsessions with the past.
- Vivenne, pro-Circle vs anti-Circle, considering they never saw eye to eye on the issue of mages. They did both agree to needing control measures, but the ways of addressing mage rights were not ones they agreed on. This included the differences in learning magic in the Circles vs. learning magic out in the world, under the guidance of a Keeper.
- Solas, with his statements about the Dalish as a whole, and trying to both reinforce or call her apart from other Dalish. Frustrating in both directions. People are products of their upbringing and their choices both, and she does not agree with his dismissive nature of her people.
- Dorian, with his viewpoints on slavery, his attitudes toward elves and certain kinds of (blood) magic. However, having him likewise come to realise certain truths about Tevinter history that she has had to face also for elven history has been a kind of bonding they can both build on. Problematic cultures? Looks like they all come from one.
- Cullen, for attitudes trusting Templars over mages, which ultimately only changed over time because he did not opt to hold her being a mage against her, and learning more of his past allowed her to move past assuming his attitudes came out of being a) human and b) in a position of power over mages and out of some shitty circumstances to really understand and see him striving to change his points of view. (Like he should, she says, though that's not strictly fair.)
- Iron Bull, mostly over faith reasons, and the importance of choice. She did not come into conflict with him like Solas did, but she did push for saving the Chargers because she knew them, over the political benefit of a temporary alliance with the Qunari. The people she knows are more important — not necessarily something Bull agreed with, though he had to adapt after the fact. This is also a flaw on Ellana's part, because it was a personally intelligent, not politically intelligent, decision, and is not the first or only time she made decisions this way (see: any decision with the Dalish involved, and/or elven history).
Her friends can be a microcosm of the larger body of the Inquisition, which has to find a way to trust and work with mages (largely left up to their own supervision), who has to deal with an Inquisitor that does not look to save the most human political face, and the like.
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